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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
TopicBihar

Topic: Bihar

The chief in chief minister

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has attracted the many backward castes, while embracing the BJP and its upper caste voters, and yet comforting the Muslims, and in the process devastating Lalu Prasad.

A mandate for Nitish Hope Kumar

With his emphatic victory in 2005 Bihar elecrion, Nitish Kumar proved again that writings on the wall do not lie.

Glimmer in heart of darkness

Can't say who will win this time but you surely can't miss the first stirrings for a new deal in Bihar.

Bihar dust, Congress cloud

If Laloo Prasad Yadav loses in Bihar, Congress has to absorb the setback. Even if he doesn't, the party, and most of all the govt at the Centre will be dragged into another round of manipulation.

Stirrings in a hopeless land

Bihar is no more the least politically exciting state as its aspirations have moved on from the usual 'Bijli-Sadak-Pani'. It now includes 'padhai'.

End this farce

Laloo Prasad Yadav has not only thumbed his nose at all Constitutional propriety and political morality but also at the vast army of his urban, upper-caste detractors.

On Camera

Vietnam & China cutting into India’s footwear exports, NITI Aayog calls for tariff cuts, R&D push

With non-leather products driving global footwear demand between 2020 and 2024, India’s global market share stood at 1.85% in 2024, says a NITI Aayog report.

ISKP & Lashkar converging under aegis of Pakistan’s ISI to take on Baloch fighters

ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.